Drag0nDan

Blew what? Didn't he offer him a contract?

Yeah - skinners off the books by the time any questions come up around quinn/JJP and literally anyone else in the pipeline. Tuch will be 30 if he hits UFA before that - 30 year olds don't get paid much and they usually don't get term. Power gets a lower AAV because you buy out RFA years and trade some UFA ones. Dahlin will get paid hopefully soon before the cap jumps.

There are less than 30 games left and Anderson is the best we have. I still carry 3 because i'd rather UPL start than comrie, but Anderson should get 2/3 starts the rest of the way. He's already retiring after the year, just play your ass off and leave it on the ice. Are we going to really roll 3 different goalies out in a playoff series?

The stick was definitely up, but Stamkos misplayed the puck and then fell over trying to reach for it. Looked like he may have tried to trap the stick and took a dive.

I mean - you have toronto looking at a possible delay of game... but you don't for actual penalties?

I agree with most of this and think they should and probably will draft more defensemen. Johnson is a wildcard, Lindgren is 18, and everything in the near term is bad. That is the issue - drafting someone this year doesn't help the team likely for at least a year or two. Factor in that the pipeline is pretty barren at almost every level, and you're short depth of some 20 somethings. Losing borgen sucked, cost controlled 3rd pair guy and a righty at that. But looking at the roster i'm not sure what else you could've done. If we used hindsight i guess we trade out 10 for 8 skaters and leave out asplund bjork and mittelstadt. But at the time - that last one could've been thompson

I know a lot has fallen in right for Montgomery... but its a very similar roster to last year. And they are absolutely rocking the league right now. Among the league leaders in goals scored, miles ahead on goals allowed. On a ridiculous points pace. And its his first year - if he doesn't win it, when should he?

He's way too close in AAV to Gaudreau and Huberdeau (similar age at contract signing), considering they signed their deals much later. Rantanen and Kucherov signed around the same time as well and are again far too close. In any case - he's found a home on that line with thompson and tuch. He still draws penalties, he still chirps, and he's still finding greasy areas for rebound goals. At the time a lot of people were concerned on term and what kind of player he'd be towards the end of the deal, and I'm seeing a player who doesn't rely too much on speed. I think he'll be fine.

He's still finding his way - he doesn't know where to be sometimes or when to be there. Takes time.

Makes sense to me - the bench shrinks down to like 3 players in the playoffs and you have a condensed game schedule.

I'd agree on Nylander. I hated that pick - everyone kept saying "Eichel got his winger!". We were terrible, why not draft good players? I think the reason grigorenko is a disappointment is that good players were selected afterwards.

I think Orr would be the pick. The other 3 were on the list behind hasek. Howe is discluded as the majority of his statistical impact happened prior to expansion.

Gretzky, Crosby, Lemieux Jagr, ovechkin Whos missing?

He seems to have gotten over his allergy to shooting. If there is nothing open, don't force a pass - just shoot. Sometimes it goes in.

You will get Olofsson and like it!!

They played a lot better after the first. But the passing was just off all night, turnover city, passes in skates. They were disruptive to anything we tried to do in the neutral zone, and zone entry was an issue all night. Power played really badly. So did Skinner. Thought Anderson was mostly fine. The other goalie played really well to get that shutout.

I meant serious as in off roster IR.

Assuming he clears waivers, he's likely the first call up if the team suffers a serious injury to a forward.

Whats he made like 6 million in his career? I don't think he's going to throw money down the drain.

At the end of the day - they claimed jost... who was not part of the plans earlier in the year. He has essentially taken hinostrozas job, so he's become somewhat expendable.

So... Dahlin has... a shot? maybe? Pastnak should get in. Vasilevsky should be the goalie. I'd guess matthews - which gives them no d-men on the actual all star team. I don't think any of this matters 🙂

Makes sense to me - he might even clear waivers. 9 teams have available cap to sign him without doing other stuff first, and one of them is buffalo (https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/cap/). If Krebs or Jost were hurt, asplund is first off the bench. If it were olofsson or mitts, maybe it'd be Hino? Personally I'd like to get asplund off the bench in general, but as long as olofsson and mitts are here they're gonna play i think. Seems like no one has cap space too, so its going to be a limited market for rentals without moving stuff back. That and everyone and their mother seems to have some level of NMC, NTC,M-NTC these days.

Playing with fire though giving up that much space to Dahlin. You'd have to have your other 3 players trying to prevent cozens and skinner from cross crease dunks to tuch on the same side, and one wrong move sets up dahlin for a 1 timer in the slot.

Seems about right - He seems a natural fit next to Lybushkin. Joker and power have played well together when joker has been available. Dahlin and Sammy seem to have some chemistry as a pair of lefties and make it work. The remaining guys just... Bryson has played freaking terrible this year, but he's also had 0 consistency. Clague stunk it up at first but hes finding his way. Fitzgerald is bad, and no one can convince me otherwise. Pilut can pass and seems a good skater but he can't get the puck out of the zone consistently and seems to second guess when to pressure people at the blue line - he also seems to have that same power allergy to shooting :-).

He was noticeably huge when i sat behind the net a few weeks ago. You cannot teach that kind of size, he just needs to figure out how to use it better and just generally how to play with more ownership. Dictate what you want people to do - it takes time. It's like catching in baseball - you can hit well and teams won't put you behind the plate if you can't call a game for the pitching. There's communication, there's reps, there's just... learning that speed.